Windows 8 featured in The Walking Dead advert, used by a zombie

Microsoft decided to take advantage of AMC's popular television show The Walking Dead for promotion of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. A Windows 8 advertisement was spotted in the season premier, during a break within the first half hour of the programme.

The advertisement has yet to be uploaded to the mass amount of tubes we know today as the Internet, but Neowin provides enough detail on what was seen. The advertisement featured a person using a tablet running Windows 8 that showed off a Walking Dead experience. While watching an episode of the show, the user was seen messaging a contact. Fairly normal, right?

At a point in the advertisement, the person seen in the clip appeared to transform into a zombie, who then sent an IM that read "I can't wait to eat you." This then turned out to be a dream by the same person, but then the audience witnessed a keyboard being used by what appeared to be zombie hands.

AMC has a user experience on the official Walking Dead website called StorySync that enables viewers to participate in trivia questions, polls and more while watching episodes via the web browser. It's an interesting take on Windows 8 promotion, which shows off how easy the interface of Microsoft's next OS is to use - even the undead can make Skype calls.

Windows 8 is to launch on October 26th, and we can expect to see further advertising throughout this month in the run up to the date of release and beyond. As well as Windows, Microsoft is also set to reveal Windows Phone 8 on October 29th, both will be available in time for the holiday season. It's a good time to be a Microsoft fan.

The commercial starts off with a young man watching the walking dead and using the walking dead story sync on a Windows 8 tablet. They then show him using the snap feature to bring up chat app where he is chatting with someone else watching the walking dead. They talk about getting together and they show off the calander app where he sets the date. They then show a pair of skeleton hands, belonging to the other person, type in "I can't wait to eat you". Then some lights go crazy and the guy gets all scared and they show a shadow of a zombie banging on the door. He then wakes up and sees in the chat box, "I can't wait to meet you".
It was very nicely done and they were able to show off some of the features of windows 8 as well.

I Tivoed the show last night. Was going to tip you about it, but couldn't find any video of it on YouTube. If I get home and the video is still not on the web, I'll rip it myself and post it on here. Just for you Rich, cuz you're the best. Daniel is a grump.. :D

I love that Microsoft is using Walking Dead as a promotional resource again. After the Bing ads last year, it's great to see them doing this. I hope they'll work these things in with other shows going forward too.